On Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, the Munich Orbital Verification Experiment (MOVE) team of the Technical University of Munich launched a stratospheric balloon carrying the current prototype of the fourth Cubesat satellite mission, MOVE-III [1]. The goal of the balloon launch was to test the current status of the systems of the future MOVE-III satellite. These […]

Who am I? What am I doing here? Good question, glad you asked. My usual answer is: “How much time do you have?” This always is a rhetorical question, after which I propose you get yourself a cup of coffee and start telling my story of how I got here. Yes, tea is also fine. […]

Hi everyone, It is the COM design team wearing our high altitude balloon tracking hat and we will introduce the Balloon Tracker subsystem we used last week to safely recover our ballon: Obviously this is a module which will not fly on the satellite but has important role in the test campaign. During the development […]

The Command & Data Handling Subsystem (CDH for short) is the “brain” of our satellite, so to speak. It collects and manages sensor and housekeeping data and commands the other subsystems. For our balloon mission, the CDH subsystem will have no “C”, i.e. no command handling part as our balloon will only be able to […]

Hey everyone!  This is the EPS design team of MOVE speaking, we wanted to introduce you the system we designed: EPS stands for electrical power supply so we are responsible for everything related to power on the satellite. This starts with the solar cells which will generate the power on MOVE-III and includes our battery […]

Matti Ukkola is 21 years old and studying electrical engineering in the 6th semester at TUM. He’s been part of the software team and has been leading it for the past one-and-a-half years and this is already his second feature story. Matti: DOSIS is the platform on which we are developing our syste. It is […]

Hi, let me introduce myself! I’m Dominik, 23 years old, born and raised in Munich. After school, I stayed here to study Materials Science & Engineering at TUM. Apart from working on MOVE, my hobbies are cooking food from around the world, hiking in the alps and learning to play the ukulele rather badly. Dominik: […]

Natalia: Hi, my name is Natalia Piotrowski, but everyone simply calls me Natia. I´m 20 years old and currently in the 6th Bachelor semester of my study course Informatics: Games Engineering. I joined MOVE in October 2020 because I wanted to gain more hands-on experience in Software development. A friend of mine, who had joined […]

Lars: I was born 23 years ago somewhere around Stuttgart and came to Munich two years ago to study Electrical and Computer Engineering, now in 5th semester. Besides developing CubeSats I enjoy sports like hiking or workouts and rarely also playing piano. Jacob: I’m 25 years old, from the province of Manitoba in Canada, and […]